The sector is held by Ryanair.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BLQ Bologna to EDI Edinburgh
Bologna Airport, Italy, to Edinburgh Airport, the United Kingdom. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 4 times a week
- Great circle
- 1,636 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 35m
- Door to door
- 9h 20m
What BLQ to EDI looks like
The BLQ to EDI sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Bologna BLQ to Edinburgh EDI is a medium haul sector of 1,636 km by great circle, flown nonstop 4 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,636 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 35m.
Bologna BLQ is a large airport in the network held here, 114 scheduled destinations and 142 departures a day. Edinburgh EDI has 163 destinations and 217.5 departures a day.
Edinburgh is one hour behind of Bologna all year.
The pair sits inside Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 14 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on BLQ to EDI from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLQ to EDI | 0.57 | 4 | Ryanair |
| EDI to BLQ | 0.57 | 4 | Ryanair |
One carrier holds the sector, Ryanair, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 8 departures a week on BLQ to EDI, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 2h 35m block time on BLQ to EDI. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to BLQ | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At BLQ before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| BLQ to EDI in the air, estimated | 155 min | 7h 05m |
| Formalities at EDI | 90 min | 8h 35m |
| Delivery run in Edinburgh | 45 min | 9h 20m |
| Door to door | 560 min | 9h 20m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for BLQ to EDI is 9h 20m.
A courier who leaves Bologna at 09:00 local is on the ground in Edinburgh at about 10:35 local and at the door by 12:50 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Edinburgh, the last useful departure from Bologna is around 14:10 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 66 of them join BLQ to EDI.
| Connecting at | BLQ to hub, flights a day | Hub to EDI, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charleroi CRL | 1.86 | 1.43 | 1,636 | 4h 20m |
| Dusseldorf DUS | 0.71 | 1.14 | 1,668 | 4h 23m |
| Brussels BRU | 1.86 | 1.29 | 1,636 | 4h 30m |
| Cologne CGN | 1.57 | 1.14 | 1,665 | 4h 32m |
| Leipzig LEJ | 0.57 | 0.71 | 1,911 | 4h 35m |
| Zurich ZRH | 2 | 2.14 | 1,635 | 4h 40m |
66 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Charleroi CRL, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through CRL the routing covers 1,636 km against the 1,636 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 20m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 45m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Dusseldorf DUS at 4h 23m and Brussels BRU at 4h 30m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Bologna, Florence FLR is 81 km away by great circle and carries 35 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Edinburgh, Glasgow GLA is 67 km away by great circle and carries 98 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Bologna to Edinburgh yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Restrictions
Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for BLQ to EDI in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The BLQ airport entry
- The EDI airport entry
- Hand carry into Italy
- Hand carry into the United Kingdom
- The written lane, Bologna to Frankfurt
- The route calculator
More pairs through BLQ and EDI: Bologna to Paris, Bologna to Amsterdam, Munich to Bologna, Madrid to Bologna, Barcelona to Bologna, Bologna to Dubai, Vienna to Bologna, Copenhagen to Bologna.